About 72 per cent of the population say they are concerned about âreports of IRA involvement in money laundering and other activities in the Republic of Ireland’â, against 15 per cent of people who report themselves unconcerned.

Some 55 per cent of voters say they find such a coalition acceptable, against 35 per cent who find it unacceptable. This represents a decline of 6 per cent in the numbers who found it acceptable a year ago.

However, the putative rainbow coalition is only marginally ahead of the combination of Fianna FÃ¡il and the Progressive Democrats, who are considered favourable by 51 per cent, also down by 4 per cent from last March.